Jordan Thompson

He lost in the second round to 21st seed Ryan Sweeting.

Jordan Thompson (born 20 April 1994) is an Australian professional tennis player, reaching a career-high ranking of world No. 32 and in doubles of No. 61 achieved on 26 February 2024.

He has won one singles and three doubles ATP titles.

He is currently the No. 2 Australian singles player.

The highlight of his junior career came at the 2012 US Open when he partnered with fellow Australian Nick Kyrgios to reach the doubles final.

Thompson reached as high as No. 18 in the combined world rankings in October 2012, compiling a singles win–loss record of 82–38.

In 2013, Thompson made his debut on the professional circuit in qualifying at the 2013 Apia International Sydney where he lost to world number 81 Guillermo García López.

After receiving a wild card he won his first professional match in qualifying at the 2013 Australian Open against Nicolas Renavand 9–7 in the third set.

Thompson then qualified and made the second round of the 2013 Burnie International losing to third seed John Millman.

For the rest of the year he played mainly in Futures, where he made three finals.

He won 2 titles, the Austria F5 ITF, Alice Springs F8 ITF and was runner-up of Sydney F9 ITF.

Thompson later made his Grand Slam debut at the 2014 Australian Open after winning the wildcard play off against Benjamin Mitchell on 15 December 2013.

He finished 2013 with an ATP ranking of No. 320.

He made his Grand Slam debut at the 2014 Australian Open after winning the Australian Open wildcard play off in December 2013.

Thompson was born in Sydney and, along with tennis, grew up as an avid fan of rugby league.

He supports the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League.

Thompson names Lleyton Hewitt as his tennis idol.

Thompson started 2014 at the 2014 Brisbane International in qualifying where he lost in the first round against Tatsuma Ito.

Thompson then competed at the 2014 AAMI Classic where he replaced Lleyton Hewitt in the draw.

His first match was against world number 9 Richard Gasquet.

He almost caused a huge upset when he served for the match at 5–3 in the third set.

And he had two match points on Gasquet's serve in the next game.

However, he lost the final set in a tiebreak by seven points to four.

He lost his second match to Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets.

Thompson ended up finishing in seventh place after he upset world number 42 Juan Mónaco.

This was Thompson's first victory over a top 50 player.

Thompson lost in 5 sets to world number 21 Jerzy Janowicz in the first round of the 2014 Australian Open 6–1, 6–4, 4–6, 2–6, 1–6.

On 21 January, Thompson was announced in the Australian squad of the 2014 Davis Cup as the back-up player.

In May, Thompson made the semifinal of the China International Challenger, which increased his ranking to a career-high of 277.

In August, Thompson made his first Challenger final, but lost to Hyeon Chung in Bangkok.

This further increased his ranking to 219.

From September to November, Thompson competed in eight challenger tournaments throughout China, USA, Australia and Japan, with the second round being his best result.

In December, Thompson won the Australian Open wildcard play off again, gaining him entry into the 2015 Australian Open.

Thompson earned a wild card into the 2015 Australian Open but lost in round 1 to João Sousa in straight sets.

He then played in the Hong Kong Challenger and Burnie Challenger but lost in round at both.

In February, Thompson made the semi-final of the Launceston Challenger before playing in Challenger events in Japan and China where his performance was a round 2.

Thompson did win his first Challenger Doubles title with Ben Mitchell at Shimadzu Challenger.

In March, Thompson returned to Australia where he won the F4 ITF title.

Thompson has a tattoo on his right bicep of the Australian coat of arms and Olympic rings which he got after playing in the 2016 Olympic Games.

Thompson's mantra is "hard work always pays off".